What do you think about psychics?

[redhen]

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I agree very much so, and that is a very excellent point. I'm sure if you sat a prophet down in a lab and tried to test their communication with a god (or gods) scientifically, you wouldn't find any satisfying results there either.

Yeeep! Tis true..

 

[BunnyMomma]

My oldest grand daughter, (who was 7 at the time) asked me how I knew that she had not done her homework.
I explained to her that I was psychic. She said "Really! Show me." I said think of a number between 5 and 7, but don't tell me the number.
I said "6". She was totally amazed at her psychic Grandma!

 

[PaulaSB12]

Watch the Penn and Teller program about pyshics and astrologers. They had this one man go into three tarot readings once as an unemployed bum, once as a family man and once as an overworking manager and got the appropriate reading for each of the men. The bum was told to put his cv out, the family man was told how loving and the overworked one was told to relax.

 

[Beekissed]

But not once did they tell the man to stop impersonating others and give him a "reading" about who he really was?

 

[sj3364]

Another great resource is the book Flim Flam by James Randi. Randi is a magician and skeptic of paranormal claims, as many magicians are. I guess they know how easy it is to fool people. I saw an interview with Randi where he talked about a time when he worked as a mentalist and how he got so good at cold reading that he started to believe he own shtick. That is when he knew he had to stop.

I think there are many people who believe they have these abilities. The easiest person to fool is yourself.

 

[chickened]

Some magicians were tried for witchcraft in England courts and would have to reveal thier secrets to escape imprisonment.
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[AquaEyes]

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[chickmashnoon]

Believer.
I spilt up with my ex and went to a psychic on wether to stay sociable with him. I figured I was on the fence, it wasn't a nasty breakup, I just realized he wasn't going to ever be serious and if he finally did, he probably wasn't suited to me for long term happiness, but I wasn't angry about it. He was just being him. I called it quits gently and found another apartment. Her answer? Don't. Because in a few weeks you will find out things that will make you nauseous just looking at him.

I thought, really? I was the one who walked away, even if he started dating someone now, I sure had no right to be angry about it.

A few weeks later, I find out from an 18 yr old girl I worked with that months ago he had tried to blackmail her into sleeping with him. A week after that, a friend of his called me up drunk (after arguing with his wife) and told me my ex had been cheating on me with a 20 yr old who had three kids from 3 different fathers and was now leaving her kids in the trailerpark with their grandmother for days while they ran around. BTW. he was 37 at the time. And i worked with this girl too. I was soo stressed and sickened, I lost 20 lbs, went down to 99 lbs and couldn't eat without throwing up.

Now, the psychic did not know him or me and had no way of knowing the situation.


However, having gone to a psychic did not help or hinder me when dealing with the situation, so really it served no purpose. All in all, it seems to me a sort of hobby or entertainment and not something I could base decisions on. I think in general man is not meant to know the future, I mean, that's part of the fun of living.


I think, sometime in the near future there will be a brown egg in my nestbox

 

[sumi]

I have psychic abilities, though I won't describe myself as psychic. I get premonitions, I see ghosts, I occasionally read minds and I'm very good at helping other people win money on the lottery! I don't make an effort to improve any of my abilities, I just live with it.
I've had experiences with other people who practice, if that's the right word. Some are genuine, many are frauds.
My thought on the whole thing is to approach it with an open mind and BE CAREFUL.

 

[FireTigeris]

My husband is a magician.

If you are willing to pay X-XXX dollars for Y-YYY minutes of entertainment go ahead.

It may or may not be cheaper then a movie.

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All of us can be perceptive, its not ESP is Normal(SP) if you take the time to listen to yourself.